L4Re - L4 Runtime Environment
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Virtual address-space management. More...
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Virtual address-space management.
The central purpose of the region-map API is to provide means to manage the virtual memory address space of an L4 task. A region-map object implements two protocols. The first protocol is the kernel page-fault protocol, to resolve page faults for threads running in an L4 task. The second protocol is the region-map protocol itself, that allows to attach a data-space object to a region of the virtual address space.
There are two basic concepts provided by a region-map abstraction: